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  2. Scots language - Wikipedia

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    Scots [note 1] is a language variety descended from Early Middle English in the West Germanic language family.Most commonly spoken in the Scottish Lowlands, the Northern Isles of Scotland, and northern Ulster in Ireland (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots), it is sometimes called: Lowland Scots, to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Celtic language that was historically ...

  3. Modern Scots - Wikipedia

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    Modern Scots comprises the varieties of Scots traditionally spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster, from 1700.. Throughout its history, Modern Scots has been undergoing a process of language attrition, whereby successive generations of speakers have adopted more and more features from English, largely from the colloquial register. [1]

  4. Scots Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The Scots Wikipedia (Scots: Scots Wikipædia) [a] is the Scots-language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. It was established on 23 June 2005, and it first reached 1,000 articles in February 2006, and 5,000 articles in November 2010.

  5. Dictionary of the Scots Language - Wikipedia

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    The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) (Scots: Dictionar o the Scots Leid, Scottish Gaelic: Faclair de Chànan na Albais) is an online Scots–English dictionary run by Dictionaries of the Scots Language. Freely available via the Internet, the work comprises the two major dictionaries of the Scots language: [1]

  6. Languages of Scotland - Wikipedia

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    The government of the United Kingdom "recognises that Scots and Ulster Scots meet the Charter's definition of a regional or minority language". [21] Whether this implies recognition of one regional or minority language or two is a question of interpretation.

  7. Scottish English - Wikipedia

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    To this event McClure attributes "the sudden and total eclipse of Scots as a literary language". [16] The continuing absence of a Scots translation of the Bible meant that the translation of King James into English was used in worship in both countries. The Acts of Union 1707 amalgamated the Scottish and English Parliaments. However the church ...

  8. What is the meaning of "Auld Lang Syne"? - AOL

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    The meaning and lyrics behind the popular end-of-year song. ... "Auld Lang Syne" has its origins in the Scottish language, which explains why so much of it may as well be Greek to most of us ...

  9. Scottish people - Wikipedia

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    Lowland Scots is still a popular spoken language with over 1.5 million Scots speakers in Scotland. [114] Scots is used by about 30,000 Ulster Scots [115] and is known in official circles as Ullans. In 1993, Ulster Scots was recognised, along with Scots, as a variety of the Scots language by the European Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages. [116]